“Einstein’s general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.” – Stephen Hawking

Ever take a long drive and when you get to your destination, you can’t quite remember the journey? All the details of the trip – the songs you heard, the yellow road ribbon winding for miles, the scratchy gray beneath the tires – are washed away as if waking from a sleep.

I’ve always thought that driving in a car (or plane, train, etc) was a form of time-travel. We zip through life going blazingly faster than our bodies are organically accustomed to. 

Yeah, weird. I know.

I feel the same way when I have a day off or when I work from home. The day starts with getting up late, coffee, no shower, and screwing around until about 10am. But the next thing you know, the blur of a doctor’s appointment or going to Staples to buy $60 ink (let’s not go there) obscures the face that suddenly, it’s 8pm and I’m just sitting down to do actual work! 

All the details of the day – the veggie sausage from breakfast, the guy in the middle of the road picking up road debris after a car accident with his bare hands, or the protestor standing outside Wal*Mart holding up a sign written in Spanish – are washed away as if I’d again, awoken from sleep.

Ironically, when I go back to the office tomorrow, it will be the opposite. It will be like The Day the Earth Stood Still and the day will be like wading in a tidy pool of cold molasses, except in tan khakis.

Love & cheers!